Young horses should he to fore

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33100, 15 December 1972, Page 1 (Supplement)

Young horses should he to fore

Youth should have a big influence on the result of the James Hazlett Stakes, first leg of the Dunedin JockeyClub’s T.A.B. double tomorrow. Brown Satin is this season’s New Zealand Oaks Winner. Jury and His Bestone are also three-year-olds, and would not have to

By

J. J. Boyle

find much improvement to be claimants for top ranking amongst their contemporaries this season. Jury’s third first time out in open company over seven furlongs at the Hororata meeting last Saturday held obvious merit as a Hazlett Stakes trial. The Wellington-owned. Ric-carton-trained chestnut finished little more than a length from the winner. Golden Sam. which had to better Imin 24sec to win. It seems likely that Jury will be even better at a mile, and he presents an obvious threat to the best of his 'elders from his position at ’the tail of the handicap j Jury has 7-6 or 101 b less than weight-for-age, while

the highly-respected Trelay will carry scale weight of 9-3 and Smart Mellay will be 31b under with her 8-6.

y| Trelay and Smart Mellay 3 will practically dominate the b!betting on Otago hopefuls in I the race, and they will gain

in stature if they contain the challenges of Jury, His ißestone and Brown Satin. i G. W. Mein might have to

■ ride Jury at about 31b overs’weight but the handsome | Test Case colt still seems > likely to receive weight from 'I His Bestone, which D. Reed should manage to ride at his ; correct weight of 7-10. I Jury was two lengths .better than His Bestone when I they were third and fourth I respectively at the Hororata I meeting. In that race His ’Bestone carried 51b more -ithan Jury, and with the rei duced difference between ■them at the weights this ■ time, and over more ground. 1 there may be little to choose I; between the Riccarton pair. I Bonney Belle and Crusade, jboth impressive winners for i southern stables at the New : Zealand Cup meeting, should i! be two of the stronger I chances in the second leg. the i! Dunedin Jockey Club Handicap. ij Both won over a mile and ya quarter on the second day ; ,of the Riccarton carnival, I Crusade in faster time I against the hacks than I Bonney Belle’s 2min 4 3-ssec lin the Fendalton Handicap ! Three days later both distinguished themselves at a ’mile and a half. Crusade winding the Otaio Plate, and ‘Bonney Belle running a close ‘second to Arcon in the ■ Metropolitan Handicap I Crusade was launched on I his open class career in the | Hororata Cup last Saturday and finished a respectable ’fourth, inches from the third 'horse. Foreign Aid.